Hesiod av Apostolos N. Athanassakis

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<p><b>This best-selling translation of Hesiod''s the <i>Theogony</i>, the <i>Works and Days</i>, and the <i>Shield </i>has been updated into the most indispensable edition yet for students of Greek mythology and literature.</b></p><p>Next to the works of Homer, Hesiod''s poems are foundational texts for students of the classics. His two major surviving works, the <i>Theogony </i>and the <i>Works and Days</i>, address the divine and the mundane, respectively. The<i> Theogony </i>traces the origins of the Greek gods and recounts the events surrounding the crowning of Zeus as their king, while the<i> Works and Days</i> is a manual of moral instruction in verse addressed to farmers and peasants. Though modern scholars dispute the authorship of the <i>Shield</i>, ancient texts treat this final poem about the shield of Herakles as unquestionably Hesiodic.</p><p>Introducing his celebrated translations of Hesiod, Apostolos N. Athanassakis positions the philosopher-poet as heir to a long tradit